THE STATS OF THE INDUSTRY

Nearly half of the supermarket industry's retailers and wholesalers, 45.5%, will be involved in test programs on the Internet in 1996, up from just 12.7% last year, a new survey reveals.The vast majority of companies said their management information systems budgets will increase in 1996, with 24.5% citing budget jumps of 11% to 25%, and 7.1% even larger hikes of 25% or more.Category management will